Example sentences of "[noun pl] was [verb] by [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The door leading to the gallery on which his chamber stands was locked by the guards , whilst the other end of the passage is blocked by fallen masonry . |
| 2 | In practice , however , the Church lost little — the suppression of the ‘ alien priories ’ by Henry V merely saw the conversion of resources to other ecclesiastical establishments , and the disappearance of a small number of decayed religious houses in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was caused by the transfer of their endowments to other houses or to colleges at universities ( 218 , ii , 163–5 , iii , 157–8 ) . |
| 3 | One of the frogs was eaten by a lizard . |
| 4 | A proposal by Germany to create CSCE peace-keeping units was opposed by the United States , the United Kingdom and France . |
| 5 | Sir , — My regiment The Queens Royal Irish Hussars was formed by the amalgamation of The 4th Queens Own Hussars and The 8th Kings Royal Irish Hussars , in 1958 . |
| 6 | However , at last year 's SNP conference , a call to drop the commitment to renationalise the public utilities was made by the convener of publicity , John Swinney , and was supported by a former party leader , Gordon Wilson . |
| 7 | The conflict between male and female anxieties was compounded by the conflict between the disparate values of home and school — two closed systems at variance with each other . |
| 8 | It is perhaps not by chance that the first Greek book to speak extensively about the Jews was written by an adviser of Ptolemy I in the years in which he was campaigning for the conquest of Palestine . |
| 9 | As we have seen , the policy for the polytechnics was outlined by the government in the White Paper , A Plan for Polytechnics and Other Colleges , issued in May 1966 . |
| 10 | The Chinese attitude to history was based on the belief that the rise and fall of dynasties was controlled by the mandate of Heaven . |
| 11 | To the enthusiast , the loss of no less than fourteen locomotive designs was countered by the application of highly distinctive sector liveries , all the more interesting because of the number of attempts made before the final choices were made . |
| 12 | Advertising was directed to restricting peak sales , and capital spending on the building of new shops was limited by the shortages of building materials . |
| 13 | A recent signing tour of record shops was cancelled by the police because of the volume of fans that was bound to turn up . |
| 14 | A report on the case involving the removal of the nine South Ronaldsay children from their homes was sent by the police to the Procurator Fiscal in Wick . |
| 15 | The resolution adopted in June by the newly-founded United Nations was ratified by the Potsdam Conference in July . |
| 16 | In all other cases the chosen outcome of business clients was adopted by the lawyer . |
| 17 | Jeremy Montagu , an early member of Musica Reservata , is a leading authority on ‘ world ’ instruments ; David Munrow collected them avidly ; John Sothcott , a founder member of Musica Reservata , always wanted to play in a Bulgarian folk ensemble and his contribution to one of Reservata 's most notorious recordings was inspired by a chance encounter with a record of Romanian music in a Hampstead shop . |
| 18 | Separation of vesicles from micelles was performed by the gel filtration method using a 350×10 mm column packed with Sephacryl S-300 gel ( Pharmacia LKB , Uppsala , Sweden ) as reported . |
| 19 | To make matters worse , Piers was standing by the door when she returned , half naked , his T-shirt tied loosely around his waist , chiselling meticulously at the door-frame . |
| 20 | An interesting mixture of the various images was provided by a story in the Daily Telegraph under the headline : ‘ Broadwater Farm : Like the Divis Flats with Reggae ’ ( 8 October 1985 ) . |
| 21 | In many cases , therefore , the programme followed by primary schools was determined by the need to prepare a minority of pupils for an examination at 11 . |
| 22 | In accordance with standing order A twelve little C in force at the time , Councillor of m notice of motion on Local Management of Schools was referred by the Council t on twenty third of April 1991 to the Education Committee . |
| 23 | On 24 May 1858 , the foundation stone of New Bradwell and Stantonbury Schools was laid by the Marchioness of Chandos . |
| 24 | For Harlequin , this shift in the production and distribution of books was marked by the Torstar Corporation taking over a 52 per cent share of their company stock in 1975 . |
| 25 | A standby arrangement of up to 85,000,000 special drawing rights ( US$111,000,000 ) over the next 11 months was announced by the IMF on April 23 , 1990 ; an additional SDR42,500,000 ( US$55,000,000 ) under the compensatory and contingency financing facility ( CCFF ) , to help alleviate pressures caused by the loss of petroleum revenue , was also made available over the same period . |
| 26 | The exciting promise John had revealed over the previous eighteen months was rewarded by a place on the England tour of Australasia in June 1991 where he demonstrated his capacity to excite the crowd and to bemuse the opposition by featuring prominently in all four matches , thereby staking a claim for a regular inclusion in the national side . |
| 27 | But the gratitude of pro-Market backbenchers was offset by the assurances she offered to anti-Marketeers like Tory Jonathan Aitken , and Labour 's Peter Shore . |
| 28 | The endemic hypochondria of the Texans was milked by a plethora of expensive clinics which most of them attended . |
| 29 | A law on public associations was passed by the USSR Supreme Soviet on Oct. 9 . |
| 30 | Roads and Traffic in Urban Areas was heralded by an HMSO flyer which , referring back to the volume 's antecedents , commented that : |